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What is the US role in the rightward shift in so many Latin American countries in recent years? Mark Weisbrot imagines what former high-level State Department official Thomas Shannon might have told Mike Pompeo. Hear Mark discuss this on This is Hell radio, and with The Real News.

Less educated workers made big employment gains in the last few years of the recovery. The idea that the labor market is increasingly tilted to favor more educated workers does not appear to be supported by the employment data.

Twenty-five years ago, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) went into effect. The law had a transformative impact on the US workplace. But as Alan Barber points out in a recent post, the U.S. continues to be the only country besides Papua New Guinea without any nationwide paid maternity leave.

Five years after leaders of Mexico’s then most prominent political parties agreed on a “Pact for Mexico,” Mexico’s economy is mired in a “trap of low investment and low growth,” and imperiled by liberalization of financial markets, a new CEPR report finds.